A faithful "parishioner" tired of living in the global economic meltdown, believing that God is all forgiving, went into a church, knelt down in front of a cross at the alter and blew his brains out. Before he pulled the trigger, he prayed God to please forgive him what he is about to do and then a cracking-pop sent him out of this world. Icheoku asks, would God forgive such an act? Also what types of sin does God forgive? According to our reading and understanding of the scripture and Christianity, God forgives only an already-committed sin (past-sin) but not a yet to be committed sin (future sin). God does not forgive a prospective sin as nothing has, by then, be done to warrant His forgiveness. Suicide is only an act upon completion, hence a suicide-intendee has not done any transgression for which to ask for or receive a forgiveness of sin? Upon commission, such suicide is no longer alive to so ask for forgiveness and hence no such petition really went before God, strictly speaking. On this premise therefore, this parishioner will not likely be forgiven if our understanding of the teachings of Christianity is good enough.
But the question needing an urgent answer is, is suicide really a sin? The 6th commandment says "thou shall not kill" but was silent on the taking of one's own life; so the act forbidden by God is the depriving of another of his or her right to life. It therefore appears that if one chooses out of his or her free volition, to terminate his/her own life, that no sin was committed in doing so? This is correlative to individuals right to property of which one's own life could be subsumed to belong to that individual. This argument is the single most cogent reason why a successful suicide is not a crime known to law; admitted that some jurisdictions might compel medical observation or institutionalisation for its attempt. Logical? It is debatable, depending on one's christian faith as well as morality.
The church chosen by this suicide to display his bloody cranial-content was the Crystal Cathedral of Reverend Robert H. Schuller in Anaheim, Orange County, California, United States of America. The man in his forties shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside the televangelist church on Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Before carrying out his carefully orchestrated exit from this earth, inside the temple of the Most High, the man handed a note and his driver’s license to an usher, then in a piety-manner, walked to the cross, knelt down as if in prayer and shot himself in the head. The usher at the sanctuary, confirmed that she greeted the man when he entered and that he handed her a note and two identity cards, with instruction that “You may want this.” The glass-walled 10,000-member Crystal Cathedral, has been described as the Ark of Noah, magnificent, grandiose, edifying and opulent; and is home to the “Hour of Power” evangelism world-wide broadcast.
But the question needing an urgent answer is, is suicide really a sin? The 6th commandment says "thou shall not kill" but was silent on the taking of one's own life; so the act forbidden by God is the depriving of another of his or her right to life. It therefore appears that if one chooses out of his or her free volition, to terminate his/her own life, that no sin was committed in doing so? This is correlative to individuals right to property of which one's own life could be subsumed to belong to that individual. This argument is the single most cogent reason why a successful suicide is not a crime known to law; admitted that some jurisdictions might compel medical observation or institutionalisation for its attempt. Logical? It is debatable, depending on one's christian faith as well as morality.
The church chosen by this suicide to display his bloody cranial-content was the Crystal Cathedral of Reverend Robert H. Schuller in Anaheim, Orange County, California, United States of America. The man in his forties shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside the televangelist church on Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Before carrying out his carefully orchestrated exit from this earth, inside the temple of the Most High, the man handed a note and his driver’s license to an usher, then in a piety-manner, walked to the cross, knelt down as if in prayer and shot himself in the head. The usher at the sanctuary, confirmed that she greeted the man when he entered and that he handed her a note and two identity cards, with instruction that “You may want this.” The glass-walled 10,000-member Crystal Cathedral, has been described as the Ark of Noah, magnificent, grandiose, edifying and opulent; and is home to the “Hour of Power” evangelism world-wide broadcast. 
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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